In May 2020, unemployment in the EU picked up slower than expected, while Bulgaria’s unemployment even marked a surprising decline, Eurostat announced . The EU unemployment rate increased to 6.7% in May, up from 6.6% in April. In Bulgaria..
The gap in the prices of consumer goods and services in the individual countries members of the EU in 2019 was considerable, with Denmark having the highest price level, and Bulgaria – the lowest, Eurostat data show. The prices of goods..
The economies of the 27 EU countries contracted at a record high in the first quarter of 2020 by 3.3%. Only 9 countries show a small growth. Among them is Bulgaria with a 2.4% increase in GDP compared to the same period in 2019, Eurostat reported...
The youngest women giving birth for the first time are in Bulgaria and Romania and the oldest ones are in Spain and Italy, data of Eurostat about 2018 show. The average age of the Bulgarian women who give birth for the first time is 26.2 years. The..
From January to March 2020, Bulgarian exports fell by 1.1% compared to the same period in 2019. Exported goods totaled over 7 billion euros, according to national statistics. The biggest contraction was in March at 8.8%, when exports reached 2.244..
Bulgaria is in the top five of the most energy independent countries in the EU by 2018, according to Eurostat. Bulgaria's energy dependence has decreased for the period 2000-2018 - from 50% to a little over 45%. On average for the EU, energy dependence is..
In 2019, 36.5% of Bulgarians were not able to meet unexpected financial costs, the average percentage for the EU being 32. This is indicated by Eurostat data released today. Single-person households and single parents with minor children find..
Only 0.5% of employed Bulgarians say they habitually work from home, the average percentage for the EU being 5.4%. This places Bulgaria last in the list of EU member countries. These data are from a Eurostat report from 2019, i.e. they..
According to latest Eurostat data about the population of the EU countries in 2018 the population of Bulgaria was 6,957,642. Young people aged under 15 accounted for 14.3 percent of the population, people aged 14 to 64 – 64.4 percent, and those..
Almost 85 percent of people who graduated university last year in Bulgaria have found a job and are successfully implementing the knowledge gained, indicates a Eurostat analysis on the employment rate of recent graduates from higher educational..
